The Million-Pound Shithammer

A mess-around-at-practice riff that grew into a song. This one knocks down some walls live.

Things got a little weird with this recording; specifically, my vocals are a little more processed than I like, making me sound sort of Ozzy-ish. Not that I've got anything against Ozzy, I'm just not him.

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posted by COBRA! (7 comments total)

Man, even without listening, I can tell you that this is possibly the greatest song title ever. And with listening, the song's pretty great as well.
posted by sleepy pete at 11:51 AM on September 13, 2007

Thanks! I think it's my favorite title, too; except that, even though we're all in our 30s, we all feel like we have to mumble the title whenever a set of band parents happen to be a show.
posted by COBRA! at 12:14 PM on September 13, 2007

Nice! Reminds me of Fire Eye'd Boy by B.S.S... at least, your drummer is totally channeling Justin Peroff.
posted by tehloki at 4:47 PM on September 13, 2007

Hell yea, very rocking. (Best played loudly)
posted by snsranch at 6:25 PM on September 13, 2007

Wow, it's already taken up residence inside my head. How'd you do that so quickly? I am having some difficulty understanding the lyrics, would you consider posting them?

sns is right; best played loudly!
posted by haunted by Leonard Cohen at 8:57 AM on September 14, 2007

I am having some difficulty understanding the lyrics, would you consider posting them?

Sure, but let me warn you, they're very inane; made up on the fly during a practice session where it morphed from warm-up riff to full-on song, and then they just sort of stuck. I'd been rereading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and just started riffing on it.

There's a million-pound shithammer
hanging over my head
I'm burning so much mescaline
it's crazy I'm not dead

Long way out from Aspen
out to DC
then up to Manchester
I've got a doberman with me

Gotta get back to Aspen
crank out Hey Rube
then head straight north
and castrate the Hube

(after Thompson died, was cremated, and shot out of a cannon, I started switching the last two lines to "turn into powder/and get fired out a tube" sometimes)
posted by COBRA! at 9:30 AM on September 14, 2007

Thanks COBRA! It's all come together now. Much better.
posted by haunted by Leonard Cohen at 10:24 AM on September 15, 2007